"The moisture in the air creates different colors that we're not used to seeing, because it's usually drier, clearer, maybe smoggy," she added.

Smith added that the clouds themselves change how we see the sun's rays. "You get different kinds of sunsets depending on the different clouds we get in the atmosphere," she explained. "The cloud droplets, liquid droplets, change the way that the lights are refracted through the clouds."

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